Holy See

Traditional Latin Mass: the latest pawn in the Vatican chess game

vatican politics is beginning to look a little like a chess game. white against black. a battle between those who love the church throu...

Letter from Rome: the Roche rescript comes with all the zeal of Saul the Pharisee

cardinal arthur roche, prefect of the dicastery for divine worship and the discipline of the sacraments (photo: marcin mazur) vatican city s...

The deeper we enter into Lent the harder we find it - but the rewards are immeasurable

in the fight against injustice, the targets have always been relative to the aim. the suffragettes targeted those denying women the right to...

Katherine Bennett

Why the Catholic Herald's next 'camino' is heading to Fátima

following a successful summer pilgrimage to santiago de compostela in north-western spain, the famous sanctuary of fátima in central po...

The Surrender upon Sex: a critique of the Church of England

this is a chapter and extract from catholic herald writer gk chesterton's 1935 book "the well and the shallows". i have explained that these...

Why we need monks back in the classroom

st benedict, contemplation and the search for knowledge should be the bedrock of a 21st-century catholic education, says mark jenkins the 17...

List: Pope Benedict XVI's best quotes

on the petrine ministry at the beginning of his ministry in the church of rome which peter bathed in his blood, peter’s current successor ta...

The Catholic Herald

Benedict XVI's care for catechism and catechists

nobody can compare with joseph ratzinger, both as cardinal and pope, for his hawk-like surveillance of and attention towards formation of th...

Dr Caroline Farey

Galileo is not the atheists’ posterboy

in our generation the myth that faith and science are incompatible – meaning that no intelligent person should believe in god – has been pus...

The American playwright Christopher Durang may help us understand

the news that the american catholic playwright christopher durang has been diagnosed with aphasia and is retiring from theatrical activity m...